I got an [mass] email from Ben Rudolph over at Parallels this morning.  Looks like certain Macs are coming preloaded with XP and Parallels Desktop.  Hmmm, personally I think this is a bold and sexy move.  You can make up you own mind and read the announcement, and a snippet is below:

…a selection of 13 pre-configured packages that include an Apple Mac Mini, iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro, pre-loaded with Parallels Desktop for Mac, with Windows XP Pro pre-installed in a Parallels virtual machine.

“We’ve found that each pre-loaded, pre-configured Mac that we sell saves us upwards of 1.5 hours of internal setup time, which means that we can substantially reduce the turn-around time it takes to get our solutions into our customers’ hands. Now when a customer places an order, they know that they’ll spend less time waiting for a shipment to arrive - and less time configuring it upon its arrival - and more time being productive with their new Mac.”